BC teilt den First Nations mit, dass es DRIPA aussetzen möchte

suspend? how about revoke 

I guess Eby has realized it’s hard to govern a province that has been reconciled out of existence

“Suspend” because he really wants to revoke it but he wants to put it off until a BCCon government is in place so the NDP can campaign on blaming them instead.

Elect an activist. This is what you get

British Columbia’s government has proposed suspending its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, according to two sources in a meeting between Premier David Eby and First Nations leaders.

One of the sources says a three-year suspension of the legislation has been proposed, while the other didn’t give a time frame

One of the sources told The Canadian Press that the proposal “effectively places every section of DRIPA” that the government wanted to replace under suspension for three years, and that changes to the legislation would be made later.

DRIPA has been cited by First Nations involved in two landmark court victories last year that sparked concern about implications for private land ownership and the province’s mining rules.

The source said the plan was to give time for the Supreme Court of Canada to weigh in, while the second source who confirmed the suspension proposal says there was “complete opposition” from First Nations at the meeting.

First Nations leaders have warned of legal action if Eby’s government proceeds with amending DRIPA.

More than 130 civil society organizations, including the B.C. Federation of Labour, have also called on Eby to leave the bill alone.

Eby’s government proposed changes to the bill in a letter and document in late March shared with some First Nations leaders under a confidentiality agreement.

The proposed changes, seen by The Canadian Press, show the province was looking to rework the wording to promise “ongoing processes” to align “select” legislation with the bill, known as DRIPA.

The current wording of the “Purpose of the Act” section says it is “to affirm the application of the Declaration to the laws of British Columbia.”

Eby said earlier that his government was trying its best to work with chiefs across the province to address concerns about the two court decisions, which both cited DRIPA and sided with First Nations on mining and property rights.

The B.C. government has said that wasn’t the intention of the law.

One found the provincial mineral claims regime is “inconsistent” with DRIPA, and another recognized the Cowichan Tribes’ Aboriginal title on land along the Fraser River, saying titles held by Canada and the City of Richmond were “defective and invalid.”

In response to the mineral claims case, Eby has said it’s “crucial that it is British Columbians, through their elected representatives, that remain in control of this process, not the courts.”

“Too much rides on it in terms of our province’s prosperity and certainty going forward,” the premier said last month.

Eby going to be running for BC Conservative party leadership soon, eh?

We should follow the USA and back out of the ICC too. International laws and guidelines are stupid. /s
Clearly it’s a complicated issue and the implementation has been poor, but the instant dismissal of DRIPA is pretty sad. A lot of work by a lot of people around the world went into the framework. We are still failing a lot of the recommendations of our own TRC as well. But people are clearly just completely exhausted from the decade or two we’ve been working on reconciliation.